As a Level One Trauma Center, UW Hospital provides the highest level of emergency care in with state-of-the-art facilities and services. Our orthopedic surgeons are fellowship-trained and experts in orthopedic surgery, so our patients receive highly specialized emergency and follow-up care.

Additionally, UW Hospital's high-tech imaging and surgical equipment can give patients and families choices in their treatment or therapy. For example, depending on the injury, patients may have surgical, medicinal or therapeutic options - or a combination of all three types of therapy.

Our experienced musculoskeletal trauma team works with the rest of the UW Health trauma team to provide comprehensive care to acutely injured patients. This multidisciplinary team includes general surgery trauma surgeons, nursing staff, mid-level providers and therapists.